WAR AND CRIME.
AN UNPLEASANT PREDICTION.
(United Service.) Received May 7, 8 p.m
LONDON, May 5
Discussing recent experience at Scotland V Yard, Sir Nevil Macready ftates that the war has left an increasing tendency to violent crimes of a new type. The burglar, after four years'' experience of killing, shows indifference alike to life-tak-ing and for personal safety. The Quarrelsome husband, who before the *a» was content to clip his wife under the ear, now used an iron bar or anything else handy for flooring her. Sir.Nevil Macready foresee^ an increase in murders of women.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7565, 8 May 1919, Page 5
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